{"id":324,"date":"2011-08-28T21:02:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T20:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2011-08-28T21:02:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T20:02:05","slug":"how-to-read-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2011\/how-to-read-a-book","title":{"rendered":"How to Read a Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Janet started reading “How to Read a Book<\/a>” and gave me a summary of what she’s read so far.\u00c2\u00a0 I decided to apply it to “Between 2 Fires<\/a>,” which I pegged as a book likely to give me a success in my first try.
\nI don’t remember how I got the book.\u00c2\u00a0 I do remember it was free – I think it was some “e-mail me and I’ll send you the book for free” offer.\u00c2\u00a0 He actually mailed it to Switzerland, which moved him up a notch in my book.\u00c2\u00a0 But getting it for free didn’t help it get read.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps it was the slightly cheesy title design, or my having just read Naim Stifan Ateek’s “Justice and Only Justice<\/a>” in German, and being a bit sated by the Palestinian Christian topic.<\/p>\n

Between 2 Fires is easy fodder for 80\/20 reading, because its bulk is an account of a week Jack Kincaid and Ron Brackin spent in Palestine and their encounters, conversations, and observations while there.\u00c2\u00a0 I skipped those, reading the introduction before and the conclusion afterward, 8 pages total.\u00c2\u00a0 Basic summary: Palestinian Christians have it bad, and they need our support, because they have the answer to the conflict in the area.\u00c2\u00a0 You can give support through prayer or through financial gifts to Banner Communications or other ministries active in the area.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it appears that sometime after 2002 their website has ceased to exist (www.bannerc.com).\u00c2\u00a0 The same seems to have happened to www.sat-7.org, a Christian Arab radio program.\u00c2\u00a0 www.win1040.com is still operational, and the Musalaha reconciliation ministry<\/a> seems to have gained an online presence since, as has the Bethlehem Bible College<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My conclusion: I’ll try the 80\/20 trick on other books.\u00c2\u00a0 If anyone wants to borrow Between 2 Fires to read the bits I didn’t, you’re welcome to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Janet started reading “How to Read a Book” and gave me a summary of what she’s read so far.\u00c2\u00a0 I decided to apply it to “Between 2 Fires,” which I pegged as a book likely to give me a success in my first try. I don’t remember how I got the book.\u00c2\u00a0 I do remember it was free – I think it was some “e-mail me and I’ll send you the book for free” offer.\u00c2\u00a0 He actually mailed it to Switzerland, which moved him up a notch in my book.\u00c2\u00a0 But getting it for free didn’t help it get read.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps it was the slightly cheesy title design, or my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}